Don't move, this child bride is not easy to mess with.

"Old Shiba? Why are you here?" The coachman looked up and down and said in surprise.

"Could you be Zhao Jingzi from the former Qianhu household?" Lin Xu was startled at first, and then asked while guarding Su Mulan behind him with a full face.

"Oh? Do you know me?" The carriage driver originally had a simple and honest face, but was suddenly shocked by Lin Xu's momentum. His temperament also changed, and he asked casually with sharp eyes.

"It's inconvenient to talk outside the door, so please follow me into the house to talk." Su Mulan looked at the yamen servant, then at the coachman, then at Lin Xu, and suddenly interjected.

The carriage driver was hesitant, but the yamen servant whom he called Lao Shiba spoke up, and they returned to Su's house together.

The inner house was full of women, and Su Mulan entertained a few people in the outer courtyard. There were also two rooms arranged like a living room.

Every day, all the deacons come here to light the meal and have gatherings.

Yang Xiaowu didn't know Lin Xu, but when he saw Su Mulan personally entertaining him, he knew he was a guest she valued and hurriedly served tea and other matters.

"Zhao Qianhu, I am Lin Xu, the police officer of Anlan County. The county magistrate has asked me to ask you something. However, your trace is elusive and I have never been able to find him. I met you by chance today. I am honored to meet you."

Lin Xu took a sip of tea and saw that the coachman didn't drink tea either. He briefly exchanged a few words with the yamen servant, then stared at him, and Lin Xu started talking.

"Brother Zhao, this is Captain Lin from our fast class. He is brave and loyal, and he takes good care of us old brothers. He is trustworthy!" The officer said when he saw that Zhao Jingzi was silent.

"It turns out it's Mr. Lin, you're polite. I'm just wondering how you guys dress up like this. Could it be that you're investigating the case in disguise? What does the county magistrate want with me?" Zhao Jingzi cupped his hands and said calmly.

"Brother Zhao, why did you become a coachman? How did you spend your life? Do you know that the brothers are looking for you so hard?" The yamen servant said with tears in his eyes.

As several people were talking, they all had doubts, and they all had things to say and ask, which was a bit confusing.

It was Su Mulan who suggested with a smile that the yamen servant should talk about him first, and then Zhao Jingzi should talk about his experience. Finally, let’s talk about Xie Chengan’s reason for looking for him.

Zhao Jingzi pondered for a long time, and then began to talk about his farewell relationship after seeing the yamen officer repeatedly ensuring that Lin Xu was reliable.

The yamen officer was called the eighteenth by Zhao Jingzi, but he was not really the eighteenth.

This man's surname is Lao, and his name is Shiba. Just because the month of his birth is the 18th. Su Mulan was stunned when she heard this. She really didn't expect that there was someone named Lao.

This surname is extremely rare and is not included in the list of hundreds of surnames. Such surnames include " Corpse ", " Difficulty ", " Death ", " Cao " etc.

It is indeed difficult to name these surnames. It's just that the word "老公" is a little bit interesting. Old ancestor, old gentleman, old man, old uncle, old senior, old thing...

Su Mulan didn't dare to think too much, for fear that she would be embarrassed if she laughed out loud if her thoughts became more and more unreliable. If you are eighteen, you will be eighteen.

What happened to this person is simple.

Lao Shiba was originally from Wuzhou, Guangxi Province. A few years ago, I met Zhao Jingzi while fleeing famine.

At that time, Zhao Jingzi had just started to become a horse thief. He went down the mountain to rob pedestrians for the first time, and met a group of deserters. Among them was Lao Shiba.

These people are simply miserable people who cannot survive, so what is there to grab?

Zhao Jingzi couldn't bear it, so he divided the small amount of food in his hand between two buckets of food among the more than 20 refugees.

These twenty people and Lao Shiba were from the same hometown. Because the government did not allow them to go out to escape famine, they had to walk in the mountains and forests every day, stay in ruined temples at night, and eat every meal. Several people died on the road.

Unexpectedly, the government did not care about them as refugees, but the horse thieves who robbed the road gave them life-saving food.

These people were so moved that they cried and asked to join Zhao Jingzi's team on the spot.

Zhao Jingzi couldn't help it. He was also a mahu who couldn't survive. He was also a fallen person in the world. If he could help, he could help him.

Although these twenty people have no martial arts skills, let alone equestrian skills, they are still physically strong, and they are miners. Zhao Jingzi accepted them to help build the cottage.

Later, Zhao Jingzi accepted the chief envoy's persuasion to surrender and went to Gaoyang Mountain to build a thousand-household residence. Lao Shiba and others also followed.

Until the imperial court ordered the elimination of thousands of households, Zhao Jingzi left alone in anger.

Those who were born in Ma households still became horse thieves. Some military households became thieves, and some disappeared. The eighteen-year-old and twenty-something miners had nowhere to go and were in constant embarrassment.

Wuzhou didn't want to go back. They weren't very familiar with the other people in Qianhusuo, so Zhao Jingzi left alone again.

Lao Shiba was honest about his duty and didn't want to continue to be a thief, so he had no choice but to take the villagers to the Gaoyang Mountains to take refuge.

Fortunately, Mr. Wang, the magistrate of Anlan County at that time, learned that they were living in seclusion in the mountains, so he sent someone to invite them out of the mountains to serve as government officials.

Lao Shiba and others were overjoyed and followed Magistrate Wang. Although the twenty or so of them were squeezed out by other officers, they finally had a place to stay.

However, not long after, Magistrate Wang was killed, and Xie Chengan took office shortly after. After Lin Xu took over Kuaiban, Lao Shiba knew that he was the new county magistrate and surrendered on his own initiative.

Lin Xu, who had just arrived, was naturally happy and wanted to be accommodating. He took great care of and valued these colleagues who were miners.

After Zhao Jingzi listened for a long time, he sighed and talked about his experience during this period.

He doesn't want to be a thief!

When he was a horse farmer, he would never have wanted to become a horse thief if he had not been forced to live by Ma Zheng.

Once you are a thief, you will always be a thief.

Because he did not want to be a thief in his heart, when the chief envoy Han Shou asked him to surrender, he surrendered. After becoming a member of Qianhu, he became even more dedicated to attacking those bandits who were really doing evil.

I thought that from now on, I would lead those old brothers to have a stable official career, but I didn't expect that nearly a hundred brothers died. After wiping out the bandits in the territory, they were killed by the court!

Zhao Jingzi was disheartened. He felt sorry for his dead brothers and was embarrassed to see his still alive brothers, so he left.

At first, he was the leader of the three hundred horse thieves, but when Han Shou promised to recruit him, half of them were unwilling.

Zhao Jingzi considered that he would be a horse thief today or tomorrow, so he insisted on surrendering to the imperial court.

The result was a slap in the face.

He didn't want to take these people as bandits anymore, and he was worried about involving Han Shouyue, so he left alone.

It's just that Zhao Jingzi was depressed and fell ill just after leaving Gaoyang Mountain before he could figure out where to join.

He was rescued by a mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law at the foot of the mountain and took care of him for half a month.

This mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are more difficult than him.

They were originally military households who escaped, and the men were caught on the road. The daughter-in-law's father-in-law was sentenced to hanging because he escaped for the second time. The wife's man was sentenced to exile.

Their mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law were used as official prostitutes. Fortunately, the two escaped during the escort and lived in seclusion at the foot of Gaoyang Mountain.

When Zhao Jingzi left, he was in a low mood and forgot to bring any money. How could he have the strength to hire a doctor? Therefore, it was just a minor illness, but it was delayed for half a month.